Business Intelligence

Cognos

Truly Integrated Enterprise BI

When you need a reliable and consistent way to manage your business, you turn to
business intelligence.

IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence is the solution that provides
complete BI functionality in one product, on a single, proven architecture. It delivers
seamless reporting, analysis, scorecarding, dashboards,
and business event management. It makes all systems and data sources available.
It simplifies your IT environment and the way everyone works with information.

The result is higher user adoption, better decisions, and a quicker response to
threats and opportunities across the organization. Cognos 8 BI is the clear choice
for BI standardization and a cornerstone of better performance management.

With Cognos, you can start with one module, and quickly and easily scale up as your
needs grow. With a centralized metadata model, Cognos provides “one version of the
truth” so everyone in your team sees the same information.

A multilingual interface enables the same information to be available to users who
require different language options.

Power Users will appreciate the simplicity of a graphical query-based reporting
utility, which allows them to very quickly get to the information they need, all
without writing complicated queries.

A wide array of charting options ensures you have the right tool to convey your
message at every level of your organization.

Analysis

Cognos Analysis unlocks the information long confined in the voluminous data warehouse
and other multidimensional-aware data storage systems (OLAP), by providing you with
the ability to explore the data and translate them into meaningful information.
Easily get to the “why” behind an event to improve business performance.

For users who are familiar with Microsoft Excel, Cognos Analysis provides the ability
to perform your analysis within the same environment.

For customers who have investments in third-party OLAP servers, Cognos can seamlessly
integrate with Oracle, Microsoft, SAP BW, and IBM cubes, or even utilize other dimensionally
modeled relational sources.

Dashboard

Cognos Dashboards communicate complex information quickly. Numbers and figures are
converted into visually appealing and easily understandable gauges, maps, charts
and other graphical elements. Cognos provides a whole range of dashboards to show
multiple results together. Operational dashboards track operational processes with
continuous data refreshes so you’re looking at the most up to date information.
Tactical Dashboards, run against datamarts or datawarehouses can track departmental
processes which can then be either deployed into portals or as a standalone solution.
Strategic Dashboards / Scorecards can monitor corporate strategic objectives at
every level of the organization ensure everyone is in lock-step with the overall
goals.

Dashboards can be built on the fly, without IT intervention, allowing you to manage
your information your way.

Scorecarding

Cognos Scorecarding helps you align your teams and tactics with strategy, communicate
goals consistently, and monitor performance against targets. This ensures ownership
and accountability within the organization.